good morning actors i'm eric thomas. >> and i'm cheryl jennings. >> take a good luck loorbg at the picture we're about to show you. they released this sketch of a suspect that they believe was involved in a vicious beating at

candlestick park last saturday. it was one of several attack that has day. necessity continue to search for witnesses to two shootings in the parking lot. all the victims are recovering slowly. it led to changes in the stadium including stepped up security and where fans can drink. changes will take place in saturday's night game against houston. 49ers are asking to cancel with pre-season games. anybody with information on these crimes are asked to call san francisco police. fremont police have arrested several suspects in connection with a string of robberies. officers including members of s.w.a.t. team searched homes on the city's border with newark. officials won't say how many they took into custody and they are not releasing any specifics of the robberies.

they say it's an ongoing investigation. >> labor of love by a group of young people is being torn down under the 580 freeway. caltrans says the skateboard park is illegal. scale borders say it keeps kids out of trouble. >> reporter: this is the area until 8:00 this morning skateboarders referred to as the spot. caltrans called it illegal so the equipment moved in and just a couple of hours the spot is going to be gone. >> alex is taking one last ride around the skateboard park that he and dozen friends built by hand a couple years ago. he can't understand why caltrans crews are tearing it down this morning. >> the graffiti and having clean up days and picking up the trash. i don't know they don't see that as like a positive push towards

something good. >> but the state obviously doesn't see it that way exactly. >> letting go is a precedent and there are liability issues and there are crime issues homeless issues. >> there had been them keeping the spotted open but caltrans says it's on the way out and city officials in oakland and emeryville were unable to come up with the money for the $5,000 per month lease that caltrans wanted. he took a petition of more than 6700 signatures to caltrans to plead his case one more time but the fate of the park was sealed. >> i cherish it so much. i was in love with this place. now somebody is going kill it.

they are going kill it. >> chp officers came in to tell them the ride was over. we asked him where to from him. he said he would l take his board to the streets. >> caltrans says it is negotiating with a billboard company to use some of the land down here. it could be a revenue producer and makeshift park called border town and what caltrans is done taking this one down, that one is going, too. right now in sacramento governor jerry brown is unveiling a new corporate tax package he says will create new jobs in california. he wants to give new tax credits and sales tax exceptions to companies. new plan is being proposed less than a week after the state's unemployment rate grew up to

12%. he needs to pick up support from at least two republicans in each house to get the plan passed into law which he failed to do in his state budget fight earlier this year. the obama administration is considering further action to help strengthen the housing market. one proposal would allow homeowners to refinance them at lowest interest rates which are about 4%. another plan, a home rental program, to stabilize housing prices by preventing foreclosed homes from flooding the market. it would lower mortgage bills right away and allow people to spend elsewhere but despite record low interest rates, many have not refinanced their loans because they owe more money than the house is worse. >> warren buff set coming to the rescue of the struggling bank of america.

they are going invest $5 billion in bank of america giving a vote of confidence in the struggling bank. they had to pay $13 billion earlier this year to settle lawsuits over failed mortgages. today marks the first full day of the 21st century when steve jobs is not the ceo of apple. it appears investors are willing to accept the change. shares fell 1%. that is rebound from overnight trading when apple stock fell more than 5%. steve jobs announced yesterday he would be resigning as ceo immediately. he did say he will stay on as chairman of apple. he didn't give a reason but he has been battling a series of health problems and taken medical leave three times. tim cook is taking over as ceo. just hours from now former

giants slugger barry bonds and his defense team will return to court to try to convince a federal court to set aside his conviction for obstruction of justice. bonds' lawyers have raised concerns about the instructions jurors got before determining his fate. they say bonds was really guilty of giving a rambling answer. prosecutors may also reveal today if they plan to retry bonds on the perjury charges. they claimed he committed perjury when he was telephoning before a federal grand jury. to the battle of libya, a spokesperson for moammar khadafy he says he is leading the fight against the rebels. khadafy is safe and his morale is high. this file video of khadafy. he called on libyans to destroy the rebels. in a statement and brief

audiotape that aired that appeal came as intense fighting has erupted in the capital city. this video inside the compound in tripoli, you can see it has been covered in graffiti it was ransacked and they are offering a nearly $2 million reward for his capture. the u.s. military says they are not hunt be for khadafy. meantime, thousand rebels have surrounded buildings next to the compound. >> still ahead, expanding the english lands. newest words in the dictionary. >> beautiful place mai looks like a nice spot for sightseeing. it's actually a

>> closed captioning brought to you by mancini sleepworld. a school in pacifica is trying a new way to learn environmental lessons. amy hollyfield joins us from the sunset ridge school to explain. you are outside. >> reporter: cheryl, they have a beautiful new deck on the playground. they can sit here and stare out at the ocean and watch the whales that play out in front of them or walk over here to the deck. however, you see the problem in pacifica sometimes it's a foggy day. they are going to put plaques with information about whales so

they can learn on days like this. when it's beautiful they are not going to be looking at the plaques. >> when you have view like this, it's hard to focus on much else. the kids at sunset elementary why trying to do cleanup duties but were distracted by the performers. >> we saw the whales. we did an all call, a lot of classrooms came out and we watch the whales, as they breached, kids we be going ohh. >> but they didn't have a place to fit and appreciate it all. >> now we have stand on top of. >> the idea of a whale watching deck was born. john edward got the word out they would need a lot of help. the response overwhelmed him. >> bakery sent up goodies for us in the morning, starbucks kept us running on coffee. people from the neighborhood

coming by. >> and principal for the day he decided to reach out to home depot. company responded with a $9,000 donation and even sent work crews over to help. >> the deck was finished this week just in time for the first week of school. the kids now have a place to watch for the beautiful whales and dolphins that play right in their backyard. >> i like them because they are real cool and beautiful. >> they came out, i didn't think they would come out like that. >> it turned out nice. you can hard to tell it's safe but the parents found this material is really tough to bend and form into the shape of a tale. they learned a lot through this process. this was paid for through donations, no taxpayer money was

used to build it. live in pacifica, amy hollyfield it's probably okay to use the words, cougar and bromance or fist bump in a speech now. english teachers will have to get used to seeing tweet. the dictionary is out hundred new terms latest edition as a tweet is post made in twitter's online message. helicopter parents, parent who overrule involved in child ace life. boom rang child, refers to young adults that move out and move back in. and bromances is a close non non-sexual friendship between men. cougar fist bump is a gesture in which two people bump their

fists together as greeting or celebration. it's kind of explanatory. >> hello mike nicco. >> sorry. >> ladies first. >> show you what is going on. we have a lot of cloud cover hanging around the bay area. good news, flight arrival delays are over. talk about whether it will last into the weekend. >> and preparing for irene, next up the hurricane pounds the caribbean and is now pounding the east coast. ababababababababi

a rough night in the bahamas as hurricane irene, 115 mile-an-hour winds pounded the island chain. they are taking aim in the east coast. hurricane watch is in effect in north carolina where 200,000 residents and tourists are facing evacuation orders. >> we are asking people all over eastern north carolina to take

this storm very seriously and to begin implement their plan. >> preparations are being done all along the atlantic seaboard. navy ships of being moved out to sea. coastal residents are already preparing for the worst. >> here is another perspective of irene from space. this is what the storm looked like from the international space station as it passed over the bahamas yesterday. mike is here with more. >> let's take a look at the radar. you see the outer bands of irene affecting the southeastern sections and southwestern sections and you can see the eyewall if you look over to the east there or right side of your television screen. you can see that open area and that the eye of irene as it is pounding the bahamas. here is different perspective. we'll put the conditions in category 3, 150 miles an hour. that is major hurricane that

could cause major damage with flooding, rain, fresh water rain and storm and winds on top of that. it's going to head towards cape hatteras sometime saturday afternoon. then it will keep chugging up and the peninsula sometime sunday morning as it hold together right through the heart of new york, right through the city itself as a minor hurricane maybe a strong tropical storm. winds around 70-80 miles an hour that could cause a lot of damage. back home, you see around santa cruz, cloudy. expecting sunshine to break out around the bay around 2:00. you can see how the clouds are erasing from the inland neighborhoods and patch or two around the coast. temperatures running in the 60s and coast in the 50s. on monterey bay, upper 50s to mid-60s even a 76 with sunshine

in gilroy. three things i want you to take away. cooling continues today, cloudy and patchy drizzle for tomorrow morning's commute and small warming trend during the afternoon this weekend. today everybody going down again just like yesterday. san francisco the same, oakland to fremont, 2-11 degrees. east bay hills, relatively warm, mid to upper 80s and 90 in antioch and brentwood. mid to upper 60s around richmond and berkeley. upper 70s to low 80s through most of south bay. los gatos about 85 degrees. low to mid-60s along the coast. downtown south san francisco, upper 50s to upper 70s to 80s in north bay valleys. santa cruz, 73. 65 in monterey. heading to the giants game, cool one, breezy one and see a lot of

clouds, 7:15 first pitch, 61 degrees. expect drizzle again tomorrow, temperatures cooler this morning and all of us in the 50s. that will set the stage for another 2-4 degree drop tomorrow afternoon. clouds won't be quite as strong saturday, sunday and monday. that is when we will get the warmer afternoons. space agencies are trying to figure out what to do next that the latest attempt to resupply the international space station has failed. the rocket blasted off carrying food and fuel for the six astronauts but the spaceship never made it into orbit and burned up in the atmosphere leaving the astronauts wondering when supplies will arrive and when they can come home. >> i don't think there is a chance of coming home early. there is a chance of maybe the three of us that we're supposed to come back on september 8th to be delayed. that is something we're looking at, as well. >> space station has enough

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we'll have that decision live from the courthouse and have those stories and more at 4:00 and 5:00. >> in the mood for reggae, latin jazz, you can catch it all this weekend. >> don sanchez has what's hot note. >> jeff bridges one on an oscar as a country performance legend now he adds to it mountain winery friday night. >> union square, traditional and modern dances featuring korean culture on saturday. >> he has a smooth style that merges several styles, harrington captivates and catch him in mill valley. >> palo alto theater of the arts shows 300 fine artists in downtown palo alto. >> pete escovedo comes to

george's nightclub friday and saturday night. >> good guys, west coast nationals shows more than 3500 custom cars. art on four wheels at alameda county fairgrounds. >> caribbean, first reggae festival, gentleman make can cuisine, fillmore center plaza. ♪ >> american tabor celebrates latinos in popular music. a major exhibition at the san francisco public library. >> that looks like fun. from all have us, thanks for joining us. >> "who wants to be a millionaire" is coming up next. >> put up with the mist and drizzle. >> we'll have more tomorrow but sunshine around 2:00 around the bay. >> see you later. honey...? [ mom ] yes.

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